Alan Schaller liked one of my photos!

Alan Schaller has a Patreon page where he shares his knowledge of the art of photography. If, like me, you love his work and street photography, I highly recommend subscribing to it.

Every month he runs a competition on this page based on a theme, which he judges himself.
The last one was on perspective and I was lucky enough to be among the 10 winners! That’s awesome!

A groupe of girls fangirling — Me when I discovered that Alan Schaller liked one of my photos

It is a huge honour, as this community has so many talented photographers.

And it motivates me to keep learning and improving. Bearing in mind that I got back into photography 4 months ago after a hiatus of about ten years.

The nominated photo

Low-angle view of three people's arms and hands reaching up toward the sky, throwing and catching Easter eggs. A child in a white t-shirt is visible on the left. Two eggs are mid-air at the center of the image. The background is a clear, uniform blue sky.

This photo was taken during a family gathering. We were throwing Easter eggs in our garden. One of my daughters, along with one of her cousins and their grandfather, were throwing eggs at each other. I placed myself in the middle, sitting on the ground, and the photo was taken looking upwards as they were throwing them. I was a bit worried about taking one on the head.

Alan’s comment

Perspective Competition Winners

Druuummm roll please… the winners of the perspective competition are (in no particular order):

Evan
@evangoldbergphoto

Andy Davies
@one_camera_one_lense

Martin Wong
@maw_camera_roll

John Barnes
@malvernphoto

Thomas Fritz

Alienlebarge

Saman Amin
@saman_m_a

Christian Cyfus
IG: @christiancyfus IRYS : Christian_Cyfus

Romain Léger

Jed Best

I was really impressed with the entries for this one, there were some real stunners - but the ones that really stood out were these winners, they all captured perspectives in different ways, looking down, looking through, looking up, finding some very unique frames in locations etc. I thought they each had their own uniqueness, and quite a few made me really look twice and try to work out what I was looking at, which is something fun to see in a competition on perspective in particular.

(I couldn’t find a full name or instagram for some of you, so please comment below if you’d like me to update them).

My next competition is going to be on light: hard light, soft light, backlight… front light for that matter. To enter, just head to the chat section and look out for “Light Competition”, and 10 winners will be selected to appear at the end of our next YouTube episode.

Well done again to the winners, and thanks to everyone for their submissions - you got involved!

Alan

The photos of the winners are featured in his latest video.